What is your SR buying preference?

Vintage

New

Both (some old some new)

I have been collecting and restoring vintage SRs for some time now. I enjoy the hunt and the challenge of taking a tarnished and sometimes rusty chunk of metal and restoring it to its former glory. I also like the fact that I rarely pay very much for a vintage find...usually in the range of $10 to $35. (I think I paid $60 for one...but it was worth every penny). I have two new razors (one I purchased as my first razor...and a second one that was a gift). Both the new ones were not on the high end as far as new razors go: one was $150 and the other $200).

I realize I prefer the vintage razors over the new ones. Not that the new ones are not good. They are fine razors. But there is something about a vintage razor, fully restored that makes it very special. Maybe its because I don't like dropping big cash on a SR. I see some of the prices in the $300, $400, $500 and beyond and I wonder are they really 10 times better than a vintage? I doubt it. But that's just my opinion. I also think that $500 could buy a boatload of vintage antique store razors.

I know the manufacturing processes make the new razors more expensive. And I am not trying to deprive the new SR makers a reasonable or prosperous livelihood. Indeed I think its great they are keeping the art form alive. Maybe I need to show my support by buying the occasional new SR.

All My Razors are Vintage..Most of them are NOS like this One I Got Today..A LesTrail Solingen Finest Silver Steel 5/8th..New Razors Don't Hone Up Any Better or Easier than an NOS Vintage Razor like this..It Looks like it was Made this Morning..This is How it Came..I Just had to Wipe Off the Factory Grease..I Stole this an All..

Nice! I’ve seen some sellers lately advertising NOS razors, but I think they are overlooking the the part about the “N” is supposed to mean new.
You do seem to have a knack for scoring some nice vintage hardware.

Nice! I’ve seen some sellers lately advertising NOS razors, but I think they are overlooking the the part about the “N” is supposed to mean new.You do seem to have a knack for scoring some nice vintage hardware.[/QUOTE]

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The Chinese Call it " Ting Jing " Listening Energy..I Can Sniff NOS Razors a Mile Away..The Knowing Resides in the Lower Belly..A Gut Instinct..This is Me Doin My Gung Fu Practice Dwarfed by Nature & the Almighty Ailsa Craig Just a Few Hundred Yards from My House on the West Coast of Scotland..This Photo was Taken by the World Famous American Guitarist Preston Reid..

I like both. I have eight or so modern razors, and about 75 vintage ones. Agree with Glen, a vintage razor is a part of history. New razors are an example of handcrafted functional art to me. So I like both for different reasons.